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Colquitt Regional Medical Center will begin in April providing hospitalist care to oversee inpatient health needs and to provide high quality physician care 24 hours per day.
The new team of hospitalists will include four board certified physicians who will specialize in the treatment of patients during their hospital stay. The hospitalist program will make it possible for patients to be seen by a physician as quickly and as often as needed. The on-site hospitalists will work closely with patients’ primary care physicians and other specialists to coordinate patients care.
“Hospitalists working with patients’ primary care physicians will coordinate the best patient care,” said Jim Matney, President & CEO of Colquitt Regional Medical Center. “They will be following up with each patient’s doctor regarding tests, tests results, medicines and other pertinent information to provide the best continuum of care.”
Marshall Tanner, M.D. will be the medical director of Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s hospitalist program. Dr. Tanner is from Douglas, Ga. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and his medical degree from University Health Sciences in Antigua. He completed a three-year residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
The hospitalist team of physicians also includes Alan Brown, M.D., M.B.A., Frank Wilson, M.D., and Ndubuisi Apu Ndukwe, M.D.
Dr. Brown is from Washington, Ga., and attended Emory University and received his medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he served as an attending physician at the pediatric emergency room. He relocated to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in 2006 to serve as program director of the hospitalist group. He was recently designated a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine with the Society of Hospitalist Medicine.
Dr. Wilson is a graduate of Georgia Southwestern College and received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency-fellowship at Emory University and an internal medicine internship at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. He is board certified in internal medicine.
Dr. Ndukwe, who is known to his patients and friends as “Dr. ND,” is originally from Nigeria. He received his undergraduate degree from Shorter College in Rome, Ga., and his medical degree from Saba University School of Medicine in Netherlands, Antilles. He completed his family medicine residency at the Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency Program in Albany, Ga. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and worked at Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s Primary Care Clinic.